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Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson were absent unfortunately.

Jack White is a very dry wit. I think Eminem's bolt on appearance was meh. Jeff Daniels was pretty good. Shout out to the two ladies whose show that is normally. They were good. The lady who was serving as his assistant at the show is a cutie. She captured Michigan-chick-stressed-out-by-situation very well. If we are going to have Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Jack White as the go to celebrities, Jack is my favorite.

FTR, I don't think her mom's prostitution prevented her from learning how to hit but it didn't help.

Was going through corporate training and they identified their anti-Human trafficking policy and it stressed that any prostitution was in and of itself human trafficking. Which is pretty interesting. Had a parent of one of my softball players who was a former victim of trafficking and she told me a bunch of her stories. She was a very attractive woman but her daughter was terrible at ball. Her legal record prevented her from joining as one of the assistant coaches but she actually was an expert witness for several anti-trafficking organizations and consulted for the DOJ (when they cared about such things).

If you were the team of hitting coaches for this team... maybe you should be shot into the sun.

6 runs a week is not a Bert.

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Its bad here in Northern VA and i wouldn't pay to do anything outdoors in this crap.

Pretty bad but not feeling this is the thing I mean, stroke a check and avoid having to testify. That's fun.

Tulsi out... Still not feeling like the thing though.

But the cowboy hat!

This is bad but I don't think this is it. Damning Pentagon leak reveals huge blow to US defenses

That plan is in the cooker for sure.

Been reading Mark Bowden's excellent "Hue 1968" and that MOP/MOE always comes up. One of the more interesting historical questions I came away with thus far: Walter Cronkite and Creighton Abrams had a conversation during Cronkite's visit to the Hue battlefield in which he came away and did his "war is unwinnable" report. Abrams was friends with Cronkite during WWII and Abrams had good press in comparison to the Westmoreland who was basically every French General during WW1 . Westmoreland sued CBS in the 1980s. I wonder if anyone did a more in-depth book on that Cronkite/Abrams relationship and its impact on the course of the War.

i.e., body count in Vietnam

Well, i'm just speculating that it will be some deal he cut with MBS or some such foreign despot to import a couple hundred blond girls 12-15 yrs old for indentured servitude which will net the Trump family some cash. Is that too far fetched? I mean he is a Pedo who does things to get paid.

Around 4pm we will see something insane they have been holding off releasing for the Friday before a holiday weekend.

People in that top 20 have so little interest in emigrating to the United States for some reason. Slovenia is a surprise actually. Former communist countries tend to still be lower on the list but Czechia, Slovenia good on you. The East German reunification was and remains turbulent but still.

That is surprising

The monster in the room is citizens united. Its allowing Orban and Putin to fund all sorts of terrible things. There is no returning to normality as defined by anyone. The only path is synthesis as taught by the harsh lessons of this criminal gang in power right now.

I miss the upward trajectory

There is also a scene from the R. Lee Ermy vehicle "Siege of Firebase Gloria" that is similar -- but too gross to show here. He's got the severed heads of two guys in his hands and he's lecturing the defensive perimeter that Corporal Miller (whose severed head is in his right hand being held by his hair) allowed the gun pit to be captured and that he no longer has any respect for Corporal Miller. Its a movie of course and for Vietnam era fodder a pretty decent B movie.

He's going to be celebrated Fox News Weekend anchor and given several male prostitutes to serve as his sex thralls.